The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-03-03
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT..

TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT..
EDITED BY THE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN
TEMPERANCE UNION.
WORLD s w. C. T. q.
Motto: For God, Home and Humanity.
Object; The overthrow of the sale and
use of stimulants and narcotics the world
over.
Methods Prevention, educati .aal, evan
gelistic, social and legal.
atchWords Agitate, Organ re.
adge A knot of white ribl n.
he hour OF concerted pray :: Noon
tide.
Weekly Prayer Meeting II rsd af-
ternoon.
President-Mrs. Margaret Lucus, Lon
don, England.
Vice Presidents United States-Miss
Francis E. Willard, Evanston, III.
Canada-MrS. Let1tia oumans, PictOu,
Ontario.
Hawaiian Islands-Mrs. DR.. Whitney,
Honolulu.
New Zealand-Mrs. Judge ard, Christ
hurch.
Belgium harlotte Gray, Ant
werp.
Corresponding Secretary-Mrs. Mary
Leayitt, Box 2647, San Francisco, Cal.
VIRGINIA W. C. T. U.
President, Mrs. W. II. Peasants, edmond.
Corresponding Secretary Miss Loua A. Kern
Winchester.
Recording Secretary, Miss Margt. E. crenshaw
Mrs John Paul, Harrisonburg.
Mrs. J w. Newton, stanton.
Mrs. Susan B. Hoge, Winchester.
Mrs. Susanna Davis. Loudoun cou -ty.
Miss Virginia Diggs, Charlottesville
Prayer Meeting, Thursday afterno DON, $50 P.
NJ. W. G. I. U. Headquarters.
Ranayolona, queen of Madagascar, about
year ago, Issued decree prohibiting, in
the most summary manner, the manufac-
ture and sale of rum. She made the pen
atty for each offence very heavy. The
French liquor dealers waited upon the
queen. and urged that they must be com
pensated for their loss. She listened to
them with queenly dignity, and them said:
go home and consult among yourselves !;
consider the wrong you have done my peo-
| pie, and after you have compensated them
for the injury and ruin inflicted upon them
| come back and we will talk of compensa-
tion."
Let the advocates of high license inquire
what effect high license had on the liquor
traffic in Roanoke City.
IT HURT HIM-"Let liquor alone and
it wont hurt you," was the advice given
by gentleman to young friend-a wide
awake, bright eyed young business man
who sat beside him On a railroad train.
"But it has hurt mes answered the
young man,
GLOW is that ?" inquired his friend,
who saw no token on his manly counte-
nance of the blight that SO soon makes its
mark On the human face divine"
We'll, six months ago my employer,
when off his balance, signed some notes
which he should not have endorsed and
yesterday the firm, IA heavy iron frm)
went under. So here am, and nearly two
thousand others, in dead of winter, thrown
out Of employment.
That gentleman's act, because Of drink,
had touched the comfort, and possible the
subsistence, of not less than ten thousand
human beings.
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/ Liquor LoGIC.--The logic of the oppo-
nents to prohibition is generally "feart Ill
| ly and wonderfully made" 1t staggers
worse than the whiskey-drinker whose
cause it acknowledgements so much that
it never hits the point at which it aims.
Here comes the Cincinnati Commercial
Grzette with what it considers four crush
ing reasons against liquor prohibition,
which 1t modestly prefaces with declara.
tion that IF there is virtue in logic we
shall overthrow this injustice" It prom
ises to demonstrate not only that prohibit
tien is wicked, but that prohibitionists
should put on the sackcloth and ashes of
penitence. That is big contract for any
paper or person. Perhaps prohibitionists,
before buying their sackcloth and hunting
for an aslhl-heaH, would likeate get fair
view of the heels of the double mule that
kicked them over the fence and out of the
pasture Here they are:
No. !. Prohibition Is impossible, there
fore it is not sincere Of course, it is
our entire Ignorance of logic which makes
us.unable to see whence the conclusion and
also makes the statement SCUM like an
assumption Of some writers of til High
er Criticism" or Geological schoo
No.a. 'Frohihitjon is subversion Of
government and of personal rights.' Well
well Our forces are certainly Civ
ing way. We have been ignorant enough
to think that "a government by the PEG
pie" was government by a majority of
| the people, sand not by minority; that
when that majority decreed prohibition
government by the people deereed it. Was
| our logician ashamed to give list of the
personal rights'' which prohibition sub
verts Perhaps he thought we knew them
already-as we do.
No. 8. Prohibition is tyrannical, ~
Just think of that. ye fprohlbitignists !
Where are your bowels of mercy that you
will not be content to allow men to make
paupers and criminals at their pleasure for
your support But before putting on
your garments of sackcloth and lying in
cold ashes just feel Of yourselves carefully
and see. if you have been kicked at ALL
Perhaps those heels expended their force
in air after -Phildde lphioP Presbyterian
Colonel pat" Donan doesn't like the
play of Hamlet" Hear the eloquent ad-
jectiye Singer Il have no patience much
lesc epnanafhu with q urofohod ,uonIrl;,,es